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California’s New Slang
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California’s New Slang

Last updated: April 18, 2025 1:26 am
Editorial Board Published April 18, 2025
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SANTA BARBARA, California — Is it attainable to outline California’s aesthetic language? As a house to nearly 40 million folks, its creative chatter takes on hundreds of various tones. There’s the tongue-and-cheek wordplay from canonical greats like John Baldessari, odes to peace by the artsy nun Sister Corita Kent, and thoroughly reproduced graffiti by Afonso Gonzalez Jr., whose creative sensibilities had been in flip influenced by his father’s profession as an indication painter.

As an alternative of narrowing down California to only one language, curator Alex Lukas makes room for a lot of dialects in his exhibition Public Texts: A Californian Visible Language, which is at the moment on view on the Artwork, Design & Structure Museum on the College of California, Santa Barbara. The exhibition exhibits how artists use textual content and picture to play up totally different features of Californian tradition. 

Eve Fowler, “This Always Comes to That” (2011–12), letterpress poster, version of 100, printed at Colby Poster Printing Firm

The historic works present that California has been a silkscreen and sign-painting hotspot for the reason that mid-Twentieth century. There’s a vitrine devoted to the Colby Poster Firm, which marketed bachata dance nights and underground raves on fluorescent gradient backgrounds. Lukas juxtaposes these items with modern works that undertake these methods. Eve Fowler’s “This Always comes to That” (2011–12), as an illustration, pops off a pink, yellow, and inexperienced Colby gradient. 

California’s language can also be mundane. In “Injured?: I” (2024), Gonzalez Jr. makes use of oil paint to breed the telephone numbers and portraits of the spokespeople from Los Angeles’s ubiquitous insurance coverage billboards. Glen Rubsamen turns to strip malls, depicting a glowing “Food 4 Less” signal amongst a smoggy sky in “Sorry, Wrong Number” (2023). Streaks of orange vibrate simply beneath the floor, giving the portray a smoldering impact.

j2qSgLeft: Glen Rubsamen, “Sorry, Wrong Number” (2023), acrylic on panel; proper: Glen Rubsamen, “Un-Scheduled Departure” (2023), acrylic on panel

Public Texts isn’t just a showcase of 2D works, nevertheless. It demonstrates that sculpture may also be a text-based medium by way of Georgina Treviño’s piece, “Siéntese Señora” (2024). She reworks the titular phrase into the tight, pointed angles of a blackletter font in a sculpture that recollects each a bench and a nameplate necklace, a standard style accent in Chicana tradition. The legs type chains, which curl alongside a white plinth, ultimately connecting by way of a clasp.

Because the exhibition progresses, the scale of its works grows. Within the second gallery, Ana Teresa Fernández’s work “SHHH” (2023), made up of a whole lot of small acrylic mirrors, casts reflections like a disco ball. Whereas the exhibition started almost empty, this a part of the present features a assortment of risograph buttons and shelving that holds skewed texts on vibrant orange paper. These are class initiatives that college students on the faculty made utilizing the exhibition as inspiration. Their inclusion is a intelligent manner of tying in a brand new era into the present’s thesis — and a foreshadowing of an emergent new slang in artwork and language. 

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Set up view of Ana Teresa Fernández, “SHH” (2023), plywood and acrylickEGxV

Alfonso Gonzalez Jr., “Injured?: I” (2024), oil, enamel, latex, gel medium, filth canvast8ZRr

John Baldessari, “I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art” (1971), lithograph on paper, version of fifty, revealed by the Nova Scotia Faculty of Artwork and Design, Halifax4lcVd

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Set up view of Georgina Treviño, “Siéntese Señora” (2024), chrome steel

Public Texts: A Californian Visible Language continues on the Artwork, Design & Structure Museum on the College of California, Santa Barbara (552 College Highway, Santa Barbara, California) by way of April 27. The exhibition was curated by Alex Lukas.

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